Have you ever wondered who's reading your blog? You might be suprised at how many people you didn't know who visit and read what you're saying. Google bought blogger.com and blogspot.com back in 2003 as a means to increase their advertising revenue[1]. Their idea was to increase the space for their ads online. Google, being Google, they didn't make it mandatory to have ads on everyone's blog. Some do, and some don't.

If you want to track who's coming to your site you'll need to follow a simple three step process.

Sign up for a google account

Sign up for adsense

Sign up for analytics

The whole process takes about 15 minutes of your time--depending on how good you are with online forms. If you already use blogspot, blogger, writely, or gmail then you've already got a Google account. If you don't already have one you can create one following the steps below.

Visit http://adsense.google.com There you'll want to sign up for an adsense account. The form may be a bit longer than what you're used to. Google wants to know everything it needs to right off the bat so it can send you a check at some point in the future.

Once your adsense account is created you're eligible for an analytics account. Visit http://analytics.google.com and sign up for an analytics account. Analytics will guide you through a few steps to get your blog reporting stats to the software. Copy the code it gives as an "HTML gadget" to some part of your blog layout.

It takes about 24-48 hours to track your site and have it start reporting stats. If the whole process took you 15 minutes to do, plan on spending more than that playing around with the maps, charts, and graphs that are automatically created for you.

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Sweet I will have to check it out when I get some time and its not the middle of the night.

As far as M&M goes...

All is good. He was home for a few days and is now off to Bulgaria for a few weeks. He gets home september 3rd. I cant wait. Not much is new there. We are just taking it one day at a time and getting to know eachother better. We spent the 3 days he was here between Logan, Layton and Payson... With family and school stuff.

We are having a lot of fun together and enjoy each other's company. I really can see myself spending the rest of my life, here and the next, with him. My mom, his mom, and I went out to Washington to watch his graduation from "summer camp" and stayed with his brother Russ. It was a lot of fun.

Yeah one summer I decided to learn it all word for word. I still got it! ha! So whats new with you guys? Anything crazy? I am pretty bored without Mike around, but maybe now I will get my stuff packed to go back up to Logan...

The 'About Me' Section

This is the blog of Jacob F. Roecker, a father of three, and husband to a terrific wife. I graduated from Utah State University with a degree in Speech Communication in May of 08. I was also awarded USU's "Man of the Year" for 2008. I have served in the Army in various capacities since 1997 and have deployed twice in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. During my time in the Army my achievements have been recognized with several military awards including the Bronze Star Medal.

My family and I currently live between two small towns north east of Fort Sill, Oklahoma where I will be serving for the next few years.

The title of this blog is constructed from the idea that there is a better life after this one. If that life in the hereafter tastes better it will probably be because there's time to let the bread rise. Here, life seems so busy--yet fun--that it's like an unleavened recess.